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The New York Times bestseller
Henry Kissinger consummate diplomat and statesman examines the strategies of six great twentiethcentury figures and brings to life a unifying theory of leadership and diplomacy
An extraordinary book The Wall Street Journal
A must readHis books including this one will hopefully be read well into the future Indeed our present and future leaders would benefit from reading all of Kissingers books They are timeless The New York Journal of Books
Leaders writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book think and act at the intersection of two axes the first between the past and the future the second between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead They must balance what they know which is necessarily drawn from the past with what they intuit about the future which is inherently conjectural and uncertain It is this intuitive grasp of direction that enables leaders to set objectives and lay down a strategy
In Leadership Kissinger analyses the lives of six extraordinary leaders Konrad Adenauer Charles de Gaulle Richard Nixon Anwar Sadat Lee Kuan Yew and Margaret Thatcher through the distinctive strategies of statecraft that he believes they embodied To each of these studies Kissinger brings historical perception public experience and because he knew each of the subjects and participated in many of the events he describes personal knowledge Leadership is enriched by insights and judgements that only Kissinger could make and concludes with his reflections on world order and the indispensability of leadership today
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